Our Values

We love and respect people. Our desire to connect with humanity is what drives us to do what we do. We are facinated by the nuances still present between cultures today and want to hold onto them. We value differences and the individuality. This attitude reflects our will to work with people, not for people.

We believe that every individual has valuable skills – you just have to reveal their value to them and how they can make use of them. We are driven to share the possibilities of this world with people who are out of sight due to geography, governance or other reasons. We want to share and spread the enchantment of their cultures and their stories to the international community. By slowing things down just a little bit we hope to inspire the world to take the time to admire their beauty.

“We hope this attitude and our values contributes to a growing collective will for a more connected world.”

People Reviews

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ABURY ensures that not only fair prices and working conditions are secured, but also that the profits are shared fairly. With this money, the ABURY Foundation is then able to develop social projects within the community, such as wells, schools etc."

Eco Fashion World

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hrough the Abury Foundation, Kolb has set up a school in the Atlas Mountains where, since 2013, it has funded 25,000 teaching hours – enough for 20 women and 27 children to learn how to read (the illiteracy rate in the area stands at about 65 per cent).

How to spend it

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his is how the ABURY Foundation was born – a charity with two main goals: to support development co-operations and education in the communities. The charity offers free preschool for children, as long as their mothers also go to school, learning to read and write.